ЕДИН ИЗКЛЮЧИТЕЛЕН ЗАКОН. ЗАКОНЪТ ЗА ИЗТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НА РАЗБОЙНИЧЕСТВОТО ОТ 1887 Г.
ONE EXCEPTIONAL LAW. THE ROBBERY SUPPRESSION ACT OF 1887

Summary/Abstract: Less than a decade after the adoption of the Tarnovo Constitution, unable to cope with the rampant crime in the Principality, the government of Stefan Stambolov passed the Law on the Extermination of Robbery in the Fifth Ordinary National Assembly. This law entered into force on December 24, 1887 and repealed the „Temporary Measures for the Cessation of Robbery” adopted on September 29, 1883. By virtue of Art 1 of the Act, „special losses” were created, the task of which was not the capture, but the direct „extermination” of robbers. Some authors define this law as „monstrous” because it was unconstitutional, anti – social and anarchic, and according to others, the special jurisdiction for „robbers” and „political criminals” provided for in it gave it „sinister political appearance…”.

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